Lions lead twice but have to settle for replay

By Tony Shea

Pagham travelled to Kent on Saturday and had lead twice in the game before being pegged back and drew 2-2.

Johan Van Driel opened the scoring for the Lions early in the second half with a drive from the edge of the 18 yard box. That was cancelled out just five minutes later when K Sports punished an error in Pagham's build up play.

The Lions re-grouped and on 81 minutes, Dan Simmonds put them ahead with a left footed toe-punt. However, this wasn't to be enough to see the away side through. K Sports struck with a late equaliser and then they were able to see the game out and grab themselves a replay.

It was a hotly contested game in which Pagham probably feel they could have won with the amount of first half chances they had, but we now look forward to Tuesday night under the lights at the 'Lane... COYL!